Hey guys,
After starting unemployed and taking the Bromley job I've enjoyed great success with them, taking them from the BSS to League 1 in successive seasons. Each year I have successfully improved my team without spending hardly any money and using Xenon's Man Utd tactic at home and Brob's Unbeaten for away games I've easily won the 3 previous leagues, scoring a hatful of goals along the way.
My first major challenge though has come in the form of league 1. I don't know if anyone else has experienced hitting this wall but wow is this league hard! This season I have got rid of a lot of deadwood, got a brand spanking new backroom staff and have what I thought at least was a very good league 1 team, again without spending any money.
This season has also seen me lose my first big player, a left winger who I signed for nothing and was made to sell by my chairman who accepted 750k for him. Admittedly that was good business given that he was worth around 350k but still its never good to lose a first team player against your wishes!
I think I got a bit drunk on my own success because I said I'd win the league as my start of season expectations and this gave me a good wage budget. However around 10 games in, and I'm hovering around 10th. some may say that is still good for a newly promoted club but a couple of my first teamers, notably my goalkeeper, have said their worried by the club's underachievment this season. My own fault for setting such high expectations I suppose. In any case this lead to my goalie handing in a transfer request which I refused.
Looking at my stats for the season so far I'm conceding as much as I'm scoring and so I'm thinking priority number one in the transfer window is improve my two centre backs and left back as they are rated at 3 stars by my assistant manager (previous seasons have seen all but a couple of players rated at 3 stars so I should not be surprised that I'm less competitive).
I'm interested to see if others found league one to be the hardest league to transition to and how they set about getting promoted. Incidently, that 750k I received didn't go in my transfer budget as the % of transfer revenue was set stupidly low thanks to my tight penny pinching board and I didn't increase it until I realised afterwards!
Cheers guys, lower league is where you earn respect in this game!
Mcbgun
After starting unemployed and taking the Bromley job I've enjoyed great success with them, taking them from the BSS to League 1 in successive seasons. Each year I have successfully improved my team without spending hardly any money and using Xenon's Man Utd tactic at home and Brob's Unbeaten for away games I've easily won the 3 previous leagues, scoring a hatful of goals along the way.
My first major challenge though has come in the form of league 1. I don't know if anyone else has experienced hitting this wall but wow is this league hard! This season I have got rid of a lot of deadwood, got a brand spanking new backroom staff and have what I thought at least was a very good league 1 team, again without spending any money.
This season has also seen me lose my first big player, a left winger who I signed for nothing and was made to sell by my chairman who accepted 750k for him. Admittedly that was good business given that he was worth around 350k but still its never good to lose a first team player against your wishes!
I think I got a bit drunk on my own success because I said I'd win the league as my start of season expectations and this gave me a good wage budget. However around 10 games in, and I'm hovering around 10th. some may say that is still good for a newly promoted club but a couple of my first teamers, notably my goalkeeper, have said their worried by the club's underachievment this season. My own fault for setting such high expectations I suppose. In any case this lead to my goalie handing in a transfer request which I refused.
Looking at my stats for the season so far I'm conceding as much as I'm scoring and so I'm thinking priority number one in the transfer window is improve my two centre backs and left back as they are rated at 3 stars by my assistant manager (previous seasons have seen all but a couple of players rated at 3 stars so I should not be surprised that I'm less competitive).
I'm interested to see if others found league one to be the hardest league to transition to and how they set about getting promoted. Incidently, that 750k I received didn't go in my transfer budget as the % of transfer revenue was set stupidly low thanks to my tight penny pinching board and I didn't increase it until I realised afterwards!
Cheers guys, lower league is where you earn respect in this game!
Mcbgun